[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Much rather have a hard dongle...
Wow, the possibilities for follow-up comments of a comedic nature are
bombarding the judgment centers of my brain...processing...verdict reached:
not going there!
> I hate soft locks 'cause if you go out of business, your registration website
> is down, or I upgrade hardware on a weekend, I'm screwed.
Exactly why I don't intend to make much use of Windows XP or Vista.
Windows 2000 was the last version of Windows you could run without this
restriction, which will probably make it the longest surviving version. I
will run XP on my laptop because that's what it came with. But when it
finally refuses to do what it's supposed to do, I will format over it with
Ubuntu or whatever the best alternative is at that point in time.
>
> Say four years from now I'm called to rework a previous design I did using
> your tool.
>
> Now, I haven't used that tool since we now (four years later) have
> di-lithium, whiz-bang powered DSP/FPGA/ costs 0.10 USD MCU's. So I've since
> upgraded
> hardware, and moved on....
>
> Well, Donald Trump wants millions of these old designs built but needs a
> hard-coded pre-nuptial that prints on the LCD. So I try to reload the old
> program.
>
> It's Sunday on Christmas holiday. And there's a major riot of trophy
> wives-to-be that knocked out all the Internet connectivity 'cause they're
> pissed that
> Donald is selling these things.
Wow, that's quite a scenario you've dreamed up!
>
> I find the old installer, run it and ----
>
> --- lo-and-behold it's useless.
>
> Then lets say you guys go bye bye 'cause you hit the jackpot, they don't make
> the stuff anymore 'cause the aforementioned di-lithium W-B chips are now in
> vogue, and you now backpack across Europe eating just whole wheat toast and
> coffee. You married a Sports Illustrated model and don't want bothered.
So maybe *you* chose the wrong career ;-) Or didn't leave it at the right
time. I'm just kidding - sort of. It does seem that the measure of
success in engineering is how soon you get to leave the field for
management, retirement, etc. I'm still searching for my 20's SI
model...we've got a lot of them at FSU, but my office is not near campus.
Maybe I need to rent office space in the student union...
> So now I got files written for your specific tool and all my work is now lost
> forever... Donald's mad....my house gets over run with angry trophy wives...
> Tom Cruise is jumping up and down on my couch like a crazed orangutan.... not
> a pretty scene. And it's Christmas...
Well, if it were me I'd put on my best salesman act and try to sweet-talk
some of those hot trophy chicks. Chances are with enough salesman BS
("sweetie, my hardware will really bring out the color of your eyes") one
of them would take a liking to me. So maybe you just need to think of
"alternative solutions" to the problem ;-)
> In fact, having no way to re-enable the software without intervention from a
> manufacturer that goes belly up is a violation of the Fair Use/Quiet
> Enjoyment:
The problem is that only people who can enforce these laws don't understand
how those laws are being violated. And even if they did understand, you
would have to pay them (it's called lobbying) to care.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
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